Data Science Consultant - Middle East

  • Full-time

Company Description

Sia Partners is a next-generation consulting firm focused on delivering superior value and tangible results to clients as they navigate the digital revolution. Our global footprint and expertise in more than 40 sectors and services allow us to enhance our clients' businesses worldwide. We guide their projects and initiatives in strategy, business transformation, IT & digital strategy, and Data Science.  As the pioneer of Consulting 4.0, we integrate AI into our solutions.

Sia Partners comprises of 2,800+ consultants with diverse expertise, and operates from 39 offices worldwide across Asia, North Africa, North America, and Australia, in addition to Europe and the United Kingdom.

In the Middle East, Sia Partners provides expert advisory services on strategy & execution, innovation, operational performance & cost reduction, cyber & data security, efficient organisation, transformation & change management, HR performance, and IT performance. In addition to these services, Sia Institute, Sia Partners’ world-class international training arm, provides a wide range of learning programs and workshops with modules successfully delivered across various locations and sectors, particularly in the Middle East.

Along with a multinational team, the Partners leading the Middle East offices have a long record of accomplishments and expertise; and play an active role in the realization of the region’ vision in both Public and Private sectors.

Why join the Sia Village? 

Excellence | Entrepreneurship | Innovation | Teamwork | Care & Support | Employee Wellbeing

These are the six core values that guide all our actions. As an expression of our values, our Sia Village concept describes our commitment to fostering a sense of community within and among our offices. We believe that knowledge sharing is the key, not only to innovation, but to the growth and development of our people.

Job Description

Sia Partners is a next-generation management consulting firm and pioneer of Consulting 4.0. Supported by Augmented & Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Data Science, we empower our clients to make the right decisions at the right time for the right reasons.

The global Data Science capability at Sia Partners consists of more than 200 Data Scientists in the Center of excellence located in our hubs across Europe, North America, and Asia. The team in London will predominantly support projects across a diverse cross-section of business sectors including Healthcare, Banking, Energy, Defence, Technology, and others.

You might find yourself working in one or more of the following disciplines to help our clients achieve their aims:

  • Data analysis: Identify business issues by extracting, interpreting, and explaining insights from data.
  • Machine/Deep learning and statistics: Development of explanatory and predictive models for decision support through the development of algorithms, econometrics, forecasting, quantitative diagnosis, etc.
  • Operational research: Assistance in the design and implementation of constrained optimization solutions and simulation models.
  • Big Data: Algorithmic knowledge for the processing of large volumes of structured and unstructured data

You will also contribute to internal data science projects hosted on Heka, our internal accelerator for data science projects: https://www.heka.ai/en

For more information about our Data Science practice, visit our bots showroom: https://datascience.sia-partners.com/.

You can also see a video presentation of our AI services & solutions here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbnEoa9zHQY.)

As a consultant, you will be responsible for…

  • Delivering high quality work with some oversight.
  • Ensuring that the deep insights generated from advanced analytics translate into business impact.
  • Supporting the delivery of projects, potentially working across several key clients in the KSA and, if required, supporting overseas engagements.
  • Identifying and referring opportunities on projects through industry news awareness, networking and initiative.
  • Contributing to proposal development.
  • Developing an understanding of what the business does and the services your practice offers.
  • Supporting the development of Sia Partners assets and IP including methodology, tools, templates, guidelines, and leading initiatives to continuously improve and integrate them with other Sia Partners assets across the Practice.
  • Supporting the development of blogs and articles.

As part of the firm's internal activities, your participation revolves around the following areas:

  • The development or strengthening of our offers through training, working groups, dissemination of internal and external support.
  • The publication policy (sector blogs, studies, press release, etc.).
  • Commercial development by defining needs and participating in commercial actions

Qualifications

  • 3+ years’ experience as a Data Scientist or Data analyst (ideally in consulting)
  • At least a bachelor’s or equivalent degree in a relevant area of study (Data Science, Business Analytics, Statistics, Economics or a related field of study) from a top university
  • Good skills in Python and ideally another analytical language (e.g., R, SQL)
  • Problem-solving aptitude and strong business acumen
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • English fluency. 
  • Strong plus: Experience with data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, PowerBI, R-shiny)
  • Strong plus: Good understanding of statistical techniques and concepts
  • Strong plus: Knowledge of Machine Learning techniques or optimization

and possess Expertise in some or all of the following:

  • Data cleaning, manipulation and pre-processing, exploratory analysis, feature engineering and machine learning libraries like pandas, numpy, scipy, regex, matplotlib, seaborn, statsmodels , scikit-learn, xgboost, and nltk, genism or spacy.Supervised Learning: Regression (simple, multivariate) and Classification (binary, multi-class, multi-label).
  • Unsupervised Learning: Clustering (customer segmentation, cluster and community detection) and Dimensionality Reduction (PCA, LDA, TruncatedSVD, NNMF, etc.).
  • Recommender Systems: Collaborative Filtering, Content Based and Matrix Factorization Methods.
  • Excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as k-NN, Naive Bayes, SVM, Decision Forests, etc.
  • Natural Language Processing: Text Preprocessing (Arabic & English), Word2Vec, TF-IDF, Text Classification (binary, multi-class, muli-label), Topic Modeling (LDA, PLSA, Matrix Factorization Methods) and Text Similarity Scores.
  • Computer Vision: Image Processing, Data Augmentation, Image Classification, Object Detection, and Semantic Segmentation.
  • Deep Learning Frameworks like Pytorch, Tensorflow or Keras.
  • Statistical Hypothesis Testing using respective libraries.
  • Dealing with numerical, categorical, text and date machine learning feature engineering.
  • Dynamic visualization including RShiny or Dash Python
  • Familiarity with Business Intelligence visualization tools like Power BI and Tableau is a plus

Additional Information

Benefits:

  • Competitive salary and benefits
  • Entrepreneurial journey
  • Career advocacy program that supports achieving professional development goals through guidance, and real-time feedback
  • Continuous learning & development opportunities
  • Healthcare coverage that includes medical, dental, vision and life insurance policies
  • Annual seminar, an in-person value-add experience that allows you to network with colleagues throughout Middle East. 

Our Commitment to Diversity

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) are part of Sia Partners’ DNA. Thanks to our expertise in several sectors and our international growth, our teams include a variety of experiences and cultures. We’re confident that promoting DEIB creates an environment in which everyone can reach their full potential.

Our global network, DEIB@Sia Partners, brings together our people worldwide to facilitate local and global progress, focused on the following areas:

  • Gender equality (global Gender Equality Index score of 91/100 for FY19-20)
  • Race & Ethnicity
  • Working Parents
  • Disabilities

Sia Partners is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, remuneration, or discipline, are based solely on performance, competence, conduct, or business needs.

To learn more about our mission, values, and business sectors, please visit our website.

Sia Partners is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, remuneration, or discipline, are based solely on performance, competence, conduct, or business needs. 

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